RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON BRUSSELS SUMMIT (December 2001) AND WAPHA’s ADDITION: HEALTH ISSUES Women should participate fully in the current and future development of Afghanistan, particularly in the field of health. Recommendations Provision of critical medical equipment, medicines and vitamins Rebuilding of water and sanitation systems Restarting of the food program Vaccination programs Medical teams should be sent to Afghanistan to provide hands-on training and mentoring to Afghan doctors and other medical staff Afghan doctors and other medical staff should be provided with the opportunities to get training abroad Scholarships should be provided to medical students to study abroad Awareness raising through media, distribution of health related material, including but not limited to mother and child health, malnutrition, hygiene, contagious diseases, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases Re-establishment of health centers in urban and rural areas Re-establishment of training centers and training programs for the medical personnel Rebuilding of medical faculties in Kabul, Herat, Nengrahar and Mazar-e-Sharif Rehabilitation of psychological hospital in Kabul and construction of mental health hospitals in other areas of Afghanistan Expansion of orthopedic centers for handicapped people Expansion of clinics and treatment centers for Malaria and Leshmenia Establishment of counseling and health centers in schools Provision of family planning programs Establishment and rebuilding of medical laboratories Re-introduction of health insurance Provision of centers for HIV/AIDS patients and drug addicts Provision of blood banks Counseling and reintegration of child soldiers (Added by WAPHA). Support and counseling for abducted women and their children (added by WAPHA)] HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTION Recalling the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Beijing Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), The Cairo Program of Action, and the UN Convention Against Torture, we the participants of the Afghan Women’s Summit for Democracy make the following recommendations: Recommendations [Human rights must be the core of reconstruction processes (Added by WAPHA)] Making all support, including monetary, from the international community conditional on the rights and treatment of women and children. [There should be gender mainstreaming throughout all of the United nations programs (Added by WAPHA)] [Gender advisers should be appointed at the highest levels of the United Nations in Afghanistan (Added by WAPHA)] [Justice and Accountability: rebuilding of the judicial system should be a priority of the reconstruction (Added by WAPHA)] [Rebuilding of a new court and legal system (Added by WAPHA)] [Recruitment and training of Afghan women as judges and lawyers. Recruitment and training of Afghan women and men as jurists, prosecutors, defense attorneys and court personnel (Added by WAPHA)] [Recruitment and training of Afghan women into armed forces both in the national and international levels as well security forces and police forces (Added by WAPHA)] [Rebuilding of Courts jails and prisons (Added by WAPHA)] [Creation of new rural legal system (Added by WAPHA)] [Accountability: Investigation of past human rights abuses; recommendation of remedies (Added by WAPHA)] [Building of rights protection into Afghan Law, especially women, girls and children rights (Added by WAPHA)] [Protection of orphaned children’s rights and provision of food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education and safe environment (Added by WAPHA)] Guaranteed recognition of the returnees to Afghanistan as legitimate citizens of Afghanistan [Reintegration of refugees (Added by WAPHA)] Central inclusion of women in the Loya Jirgah (Grand Assembly) and all peace processes and matters related to reconstruction. Inclusion of Afghan women lawyers in the development of a new constitution based on the 1964 constitution and resulting legal frameworks Critical focus on disarmament in all areas of Afghanistan and a wide demining campaign Ensuring that the principles of non-discrimination according to gender, age, ethnicity, disability, religion, and political affiliation in all aspects of political, social, cultural, civil and economic rights are central to the new legal system Ensuring the protection of women from forced/under-aged marriages, sexual harassment, trafficking in people and all other types of abuse Ensuring a safe and secure environment for women and girls Ensuring equal rights for women including the right to vote, equal pay and equal access to education, health care and employment Elimination of child labor and child soldiering Wide utilization of Afghan women experts, their knowledge and experiences Establishment of an umbrella/coalition under which a number of organizations will jointly work on projects or programs Donor funding to be channeled through local Afghan Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and a transparent system of accountabilities should be established Ensuring examination of the economic involvement of regional actors in the context of promoting sustainable peace [Inclusion of Afghan women as decision-makers in the reconstruction processes (Added by WAPHA)] [Ensuring women’s participation in development programs in the urban and rural areas (Added by WAPHA)] [Eradication of poverty and feminization of poverty (Added by WAPHA)] [Cleaning and clearing of Afghanistan of the landmines (added by WAPHA)] [Ensuring gender equity by the United Nations, international agencies, Afghan government agencies and women’s recruitment for the Afghan reconstruction programs (Added by WAPHA)] [Ensuring full participation of all Afghans in the civil society regardless of gender, age, disability, ethnicity, religion and political affiliation (added by WAPHA)] [Ensuring equal access of women, particularly female heads of household to adequate and safe food distribution (Added by WAPHA)]

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